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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Plain clothes. No uniforms. No body cameras. No identification. ICE is continuing to act with impunity — instilling fear in our communities and scaring tourists, which hurts our tourism economy," [Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.] wrote in a post Thursday on X.

Screenshot from article that reads as follows:
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., slammed the agents' actions and said she was
"demanding answers about what happened."
"Plain clothes. No uniforms. No body cameras. No identification. ICE is continuing to act with impunity — instilling fear in our communities and scaring tourists, which hurts our tourism economy," she wrote in a post Thursday on X.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The top line takeaway: you can do some easy work yourself to lessen the risk, so don’t panic, stay hydrated, and wash your hands you filthy animal

• Avoid the bagged or boxed salads for now, until there's more clarity on which products and sources are affected. Whole heads of lettuce you wash and cut yourself are the safer bet in the meantime.
• Until a source is confirmed, lean toward produce with the least human handling. This means things you can peel, wash thoroughly, or cook. Produce with lots of bumps, grooves, and folds (leafy greens, berries) gives the parasite more places to hide, which makes it harder to wash off completely.
• Washing helps, but it won't fully remove the parasite. Water removes some of it, but not all, because it clings and hides in nooks and crannies. Cooking will kill it, though I recognize "just cook your salad" isn't a satisfying solution.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

That’s exactly what a GHOST would say! I ain’t buying it.

Screen shot from the article quoted/linked of a single paragraph: "I still have unfinished business to complete on your behalf, and I have every intention of finishing the job you elected me to do," McConnell said. "I'll keep working hard to get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible.”

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From my perspective, downtown DC today was mostly full of exhausted, bored, and cranky children and the adults who dragged them here, all of whose are wondering, “Can we go home now?” Oh m, also most of the museums here don’t allow bags larger than like, a backpack.

Status pop-up message from Fallout 3, set in the Capital Wasteland. A retro green on black terminal style graphic shows a boy looking surprised, with the notification, “You are overencumbered and cannot run!”

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Mine is very recent which oof, says a lot to unpack another time. Needed a creative but polished cocktail look to send a professional ‘fuck you.’ Goal was elegant/offbeat, subtle/dramatic, irreverent/dead serious. Entirely too cool for school. Secondhand new with tags, best $40 I’ve ever spent?

Fierce photo of me: shorter, curvier, white, with blue hair and glasses and hand on one hip. The dress is black and falls at the knee, flattering as hell, but it gets better. It’s an off the shoulder dress with a BUILT IN MOTHERFUCKING CAPE. I was the hero and the villain of the evening.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I regret to inform you that this album exists

Cassette tape cover for RAPPIN’ RABBIT’S CHRISTIAN HABBITS, with a cartoon rabbit in red overalls and a yellow shirt carrying a gardening hoe through rows of vegetables.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but… …remember the moment the NBA postponed the season and that’s when it set in that COVID was that bad?

Screenshot from The Simpsons of a monkey’s paw with three fingers and a thumb (palm up facing left). The most distant finger of the hairless hand is curled, and a yellow thumb is visible from a human hand grasping the monkey’s hairy wrist.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I specifically sing the corrupted in-joke variation: NO! SLEEP! TILL BRANSON! What a fucking country, huh?

Still from The Simpsons of a stage show, the name BRANSON (as in, Missouri) is spotlighted in the backdrop like the Hollywood sign. A dozen ensemble singers and dancers in top hats and tails gesture towards the center of the stage, where Yakovac Smirnov makes his entrance from the lit up silhouette in the shape of a coffin. The lyrics in caption read, “In Soviet Union, revue watches you!”

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

“You're listening to Enclave Radio. I'm John Henry Eden, President of the Enclave, President of America, President... of your heart."

Fallout 3 Enclave propaganda poster. A man in a business suit stands in front of a waving American flag, while children embrace a soldier in power armor in the background. Text reads: Rebuilding America’s Future Today!

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

*taps the sign* what a beautiful reminder that we’ll always be weirder and more interesting than your soulless brute force algorithms

Silver sharpie on a black post it note that reads:
SAY NO TO GENERATIVE AI ART
BUY ART FROM REAL DEGENERATES

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Armed cop patrolling platform at WMATA Shady Grove metro stop, end of the red line in suburban Maryland. I know, I know: local police, within jurisdiction, etc. etc., but he sure didn’t seem happy to see me. Literally the only thing making me feel less safe during a calm, off-peak a.m. commute.

Bootlicker says what? [Armed police officer in vest on Shady Grove metro platform, sign visible in the background, looking up with an expression of, “what?”]

Cop coming around for a look at me as I wait on a WMATA metro car to depart the station.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Awww, my county circuit court remembered my birthday and got me a swell gift!

JURORS SUMMONED FOR 08/14/2025
Because all Jury trials on the docket for 08/14/2025 have either been settled or postponed, it will not be necessary for any jurors to report on 08/14/2025.
Therefore you are excused and may be resummoned after a 12-month period.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Hope there’s no world news today, I’ve been busy reprising my role as the pride fairy at work

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

1991.21: Correctly complete this quote describing the U of C: "the greatest collection of _ since _ ."[6 points] A: J. Liebling in his book The Second City described the University of Chicago as "the greatest collection of juvenile neurotics since the Children's Crusade."

Photo of page of a book. It reads:

1991.21: Correctly complete this quote describing the U of C: "the greatest collection of _ since _ ."[6 points]

A: J. Liebling in his book The Second City described the University of Chicago as "the greatest collection of juvenile neurotics since the Children's Crusade."

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Hey, maybe they won’t eliminate IMLS after all… because they’ll convert it to the ministry of propaganda.

March 2025
Keith E. Sonderling Sworn In as Acting Director of Institute of Museum and Library Services
WASHINGTON - Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling was sworn in as Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today, after being designated to the role by President Donald J. Trump. IMLS, an independent government agency, is the primary source of federal support for the nation's museums and libraries.
"It is an honor to be appointed by President Trump to lead this important organization in its mission to advance, support, and empower America's museums and libraries, which stand as cornerstones of learning and culture in our society. I am committed to steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration to enhance efficiency and foster innovation. We will revitalize IMLS and restore focus on patriotism, ensuring we preserve our country's core values, promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country in future generations," said Acting Director Sonderling.
Sonderling was recently confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Labor, where he previously served as Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division.
Most recently, he served as the Commissioner of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity from 2020-2024.
Before entering government service, Sonderling was a partner at Gunster, one of Florida's oldest and largest law firms. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Florida and a Juris Doctor at Nova Southeastern University. He has also been a Professional Lecturer in the Law at the George Washington University Law School, teaching employment discrimination.
Media Contact:
Courtney Parella at info@imls.gov

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Wait, wait, I’ve seen this one before.

John Mulaney, shortly before an intervention and rehab, sits on a late night couch screen left in an ill-fitting trench coat and sunglasses; Seth Meyers, sits behind the socially distanced desk, screen right, looking increasingly concerned.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Look, those degrees (and staying current) cost big bucks. When asked for relevant resources to share for a meaningful project at work, you bet your ass I’ll bring you the books AND all the dead trees my university library printing card paid for.

A large stack of books and printed off e-reserve scans on an antique desk with a green blotter. Books: Original Sins (Ewing), Black Skin White Masks (Fanon), Heading South to Teach (Tolley), Their Highest Potential (Walker), Ghosts in the Schoolyard (Ewing again), Destination Culture (Kirschenblatt-Gimblett). Printouts: Good Schools (Nelson), Public Goods, Private Goods (Labaree)

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Look, when we got all the internet memes together in 2008 to contemplate the wild cultural shift that was starting, the Brawndo thing was supposed to be a joke.

A younger, fresher faced OP (brunette ponytail, glasses, and a red ROFLCon volunteer tshirt over a white striped button down), sticking out a fully yellow tongue and holding up a tall can of an energy drink branded as BRAWNDO: The Thirst Mutilator.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

💯 Maps are representations of the world according to the systems of those who create them.

Map of Indigenous peoples in North America with overlapping areas and no stark national borders by colonial settlers.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This afternoon, I’ve been taking dark comfort in stories about what community action has done before, in hopes of recharging my batteries just enough to think about present and future. Look, I’m not saying it consistently feels very good. Consider, Exhibit A from How to Survive a Plague (2012):

Paused playback on a TV screen from the 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague (as titled at top of frame), about organizing to address the AIDS crisis in the 1980s via gay liberation, science and medicine policy, and healthcare access. The middle aged man about to speak wears glasses and a suit, and has mostly still dark hair. The caption identifies him as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“No LGB without the T, motherfuckers!” is goddamn right

Actor Matt Berry, a middle aged white character dressed in black with a grey streak in his brown hair, captioned as saying, “You can fuck that sky-high.”

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Looks like NSF finally remembered the non-profit side. This is the resource hub for NSF’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) grants, aka the big ones for museum research. Webinars paused by NSF order. I had moved an IUD replacement appointment for a fellowship kickoff meeting this afternoon.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

From one of the most important professional development trainings I’ve ever taken. When these are exercised at the exclusion of empathy or even entertaining alternatives, we’re all in trouble. Prioritizing propriety and freedom from discomfort (real or imagined) are signs of privilege, not rights.

13 Behaviors of White Supremacy Culture, credit: Tema Okun. Perfectionism; Sense of Urgency; Defensiveness; Quantity Over Quality; Worship the Written Word; Paternalism; Either/Or Thinking; Power Hoarding; Fear of Open Conflict; Individualism; Progress = Bigger, More; Objectivity; Right to Comfort.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Still not over that weird obsession with crowd sizes

Barack Obama at the 2024 Democratic National Convention holding his hands close together.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Reposting this, pretty much sums it all up.

Author, a short brunette in a grey sweater, stares down at phone in hand looking serious. The room is filled with red light from the floor. Behind me, a half dozen creepy Halloween horror decorations loom, towering overhead and many appearing to peer over my shoulder at the phone. We’re talking skeletons and creepy clowns and ghouls; cats and dogs, living together; mass doomscrolling.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Inside of you are two wolves, and Lil Jon doesn’t really want to be leading either of them in guided meditation right now.

Hasty photo of the left half of a TV screen, zoomed in on Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper’s NYE coverage for CNN. Lil Jon is cut off on the right, but you can still see his name in the chyron. Andy (left) leans with elbows on the railing behind him, eyes closed, hands resting near stomach, looking like the eponymous Bernie, of Weekend At. Anderson (right), has one hand to his chin trying to look serious while stifling a laugh that’s half genuine bemusement, half horror at what his life has become. Both resonate with me deeply.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025?

Two panel meme of Pingu, the claymation penguin.

Top panel of scowling Pingu: YOU TRIGGERED MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT REAPONSE

Bottom panel of Pingu holding a lit stick of dynamite: AND I’M A FIGHTLESS BIRD

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025?

Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, an animated, anthropomorphic meatball smoking a cigarette with a photoshopped birthday hat. The caption, slightly altered to replace “day” with “year” reads: Go had allowed me to live another year and I’m about to make it everyone’s problem.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

2024 in a nutshell: Knowing it’s fully possible that my friend group will experience the start of a marriage, the birth of a first child, and the death of a parent all within the last 5 days of the year and really hoping that’s it, nothing else will happen. NO ALARMS AND NO MORE SUPRISES PLEASE

Close up of a man (Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead, circa 1998) with his eyes closed and head inside of a fishbowl that’s filling up with water now past his nose.

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CatGPT doesn’t need AI @catastrophe.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My spiritual beliefs are generally “no thanks” or “I’ve crafted an intricate personal model grounded in empathy and sociology but I don’t think you want the lecture…” But look at these sweet boys separated at birth (+28 years) and tell my childhood heart you feel nothing. (L: c. 1997; R: 09/2024)

Three old school pharmacy photo prints from the mid 90s on a green background. All three feature a red mini poodle with curly ginger fur in various states of time elapsed since last haircut. This is my childhood dog.

OP in a clothing boutique, cradling a red mini poodle in their arms. OP is brunette with shoulder length, graying side shave, vintage green acetate eyewear, and a blue dress with red and gray cherries and leavings on it. This photo is a few months old.

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